Includes bibliographical references (p.[267]-285) and index
Introduction -- Contrasting narratives of Palestinian identity -- Cultural life and identity in late Ottoman Palestine : the place of Jerusalem -- Competing and overlapping loyalties in Ottoman Jerusalem -- Elements of identity I : peasant resistance to Zionist settlement -- Elements of identity II : the debate on Zionism in the Arabic press The formation of Palestinian identity : the critical years, 1917-1923 -- The "disappearance of Palestinian identity